The Captain Abandons A Floundering Ship

Italy has always been a maritime nation, with Rome founded by mariners.  With their economy on the rocks, they may have a cathartic moment, where they can focus their rage against a captain who abandoned ship before his passengers, leaving many to die.  A captain is a top position in society.  But the system will punish this captain, because he worked for a private company, and there are a few thousand complainers who made it off the ship.  If a rogue government worker angers enough people, the system will throw that one to the wolves.

Over at lewrockwell.com an essayist observes that as the middle class disappears in USA (and likely worldwide) it is replaced by the praetorian class which protects the privileged from the masses to be abused.  Just so.  I was dealing with a building code enforcer once, whose job went to his head so he tried to make up his own rules.  When I required he show me the regs, he could not, and then he went rogue.

A lawyer I retained to sort out the clerk wrote a letter and ended it.  The lawyer explained to me that a lawyer's purpose is to keep government honest.  OK..., when?  When will that begin, lawyers keeping government honest?  As far as I can tell, dishonest government is financially lucrative to lawyers.  Lawyers are, as a matter of fact, officers of the court, so they are government workers themselves.  It seems we have quite a conflict of interest.

We have lawyer-filled legislatures not raising a peep as the executive branch commits crime after crime.

This lack of concern for integrity shows up in who gets to be a ship's captain, who gets to be a general, who gets to be appointed to the commanding heights in society.  As I've noted before, one can survey all of the positions of the commanding heights, there is not a one who would not abandon ship as soon as it gets dicey.  In fact, they abandon ship every day, by failing to do what is right.

Go ahead, name an admirable leader in society.  Ummm... umm... well.....

As the ship of state, which has suffered a gash due to sailing off course, flounders, we'll be on our own.  We better know how to make things and buy and sell them.  We better know how a free market works.

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